Report on CPAC Hungary 2023
It is no coincidence that the only European edition of America’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) took place in Hungary this year — for the second year in a row. Hungary is a small country, even by European standards, with Hungarians living in their homeland counting for fewer than 10 million of the European Union’s 447 million inhabitants. What’s more, it has a surface area that was reduced by over two-thirds by the Treaty of Trianon, imposed by the Entente after the First World War on a nation that bore no responsibility for starting that war. That left a third of Hungarians living outside their truncated homeland...
The Hungarians and the Poles are two peoples who maintain a century-old, deeply rooted friendship and share a set of similarities with no equivalent elsewhere in Europe, in spite of their different origins and languages. Indeed, unlike the Poles, Hungarians are not Slavs and not even Indo-Europeans. They are descendants of people who wandered from Central Asia (their closest cousins ethnically and linguistically are thought to be the Finns, and they could also have distant links with the Turks)...
Together with the Poles, the Hungarians are the ones who started the 1989 wave of popular revolts that ended Communist rule and forced Soviet Russia eventually to withdraw from Central Europe and the Baltic states... For that reason, like other countries of the former Eastern bloc, the Hungarians know what Marxism and a totalitarian state are.. there are still enough people there who recognize totalitarian features when they see them. And they see them in the “woke” ideology submerging the Western world from its post-war geopolitical center, the United States...
“We don’t want to see another effort at re-educating our societies along the lines of progressive ideas promoting an endless cycle of ‘liberation.’ This has been attempted several times here in this region. We remember well. And we suffered from it direly,” said Miklós Szánthó, the director of the Hungarian Center for Fundamental Rights, the local organizer of the conference, in his CPAC Hungary 2023 speech...
... Marek Jędraszewski, caused fury among the Polish and Western liberal left, when he warned about a new “rainbow plague” that he said had replaced the old “red plague:”
The red plague no longer walks on our earth, but a new neo-Marxist one that wants to conquer our souls, hearts, and minds has appeared. It is not a red, but a rainbow plague.
Just as it did in Communist times, the Catholic faith in Poland stands in the way of the new totalitarian ideologies, and the Church is the target of many attacks from the post-Communist and neo-Marxist liberal left...
At CPAC Hungary this year, the Hungarian prime minister said:
Migration, gender, wokeism — these are all just variants, variants of the same virus. . . . [T]he woke movement and gender ideology are exactly what communism and Marxism used to be: they artificially divide the nation into minorities in order to foment discord between groups. This is their power base...
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